Mabel Ping-Hua Lee
Mabel Ping-Hua Lee was born in China in 1896 but lived most of her life in the United States, where, due to the Chinese Exclusion Act, she had no path to naturalization until the law changed in 1943. Even though it would not benefit her for decades, Mabel Lee worked for women’s suffrage, leading t…
Amended Episode 6: Walking in Two Worlds
Amended, a podcast from our friends at Humanities New York, asks how we tell the story of the (unfinished) struggle for women’s voting rights. Who gave us the dominant suffrage narrative? And who gets left out?
When the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920, a large number of Native American women s…
Episode 6: Walking in Two Worlds
When the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920, a large number of Native American women still could not vote. The U.S. government did not recognize them as citizens. And if having U.S. citizenship required them to renounce tribal sovereignty, many Native women didn’t want it. But early-twentieth-cen…
Episode 5: The Submerged Half
In 1912, Mabel Lee, a teenaged immigrant from China, led a New York City suffrage parade on horseback. Ineligible for U.S. citizenship due to anti-Chinese immigration policy, Mabel nonetheless spoke out for American women’s political equality. She envisioned a world where all women had the right t…
Introducing New Hosts Boyd and Cathleen
Cathleen Cahill and Boyd Cothran introduce themselves and lay out their plans for the Gilded Age & Progressive Era podcast over the next few months, including an upcoming interview with Leslie Jones, curator of the Newport Preservation Society's new exhibit about Gilded Age architect Richard Morri…
Are We Living Through Another Gilded Age? A History Lesson With Alycia Asai
In episode 131, our special guest, Alycia Asai, gives us a history lesson on the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era.
Alycia is an independent historian whose research interests center around women, labor, and the evolution of the social safety net in the United States. She is the researcher, prod…
113 Unforgettable Sacrifice
Cathleen talks with Dr. Hilary N. Green, whose most recent book, Unforgettable Sacrifice: How Black Communities Remembered the Civil War, was published by Fordham University Press in 2025. https://fordhampress.com/unforgettable-sacrifice-hb-9781531508531.html
An exciting addition to scholarship on…
116: The Feather Wars: And the Great Crusade to Save America’s Birds
In this episode, Boyd Cothran and Cathleen Cahill sit down with James H. McCommons to discuss his sweeping new book, The Feather Wars: And the Great Crusade to Save America’s Birds — publishing March 17, 2026.
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https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250286895/thefeatherwars/
At a momen…
17. Women's Suffrage with Cathleen Cahill
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Rob and Eric are joined by Dr. Cathleen Cahill to discuss ways to teach the women’s suffrage movement in the United States. Cathleen is the Walter L. Ferree and Helen P. Ferree Professor of Middle-American History at Penn State. She begins by urging teachers to conceptualize thi…
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